This has been another some what busy week for me so I didn't read very much this week... :(
But I did start Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (the sequel to The Hunger Games) and so far it is very good. It picks up right where The Hunger games left off and it has been very hard for me to put it down. It usually comes to sleep or keep reading... unfortunately sleep usually wins.
So... Katniss and Peeta are back from the Hunger Games and are about to go on a Tour through the districts and to the Capitol. What Katniss is starting to discover is that, because of her "trick" with the poison berries during the games, the Capitol is not happy with her. Also she has started somewhat of an uprising in the other districts and things are starting to take a turn for the worse. Panem is no longer a safe place for anybody and people are starting to flee from their homes.
That's as far as i got so far. A better summary will come next week.
I read for 3 hours and 15 minutes this week.
Total Time: 43 hours and 15 minutes
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Week Five
This week I read Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The song I picked to be the theme song for this book is Strange by Tokio Hotel & Kerli. I think this song is fitting because if everything that happens to Alice in this book happened to you, well I think you would think that it was pretty strange.
Alright well I don't really think this book needs much summarizing because I'm sure we all know the story so I will keep it brief. Alice sees a rabbit with a watch so she follows it and ends up falling down a rabbit hole. She falls and falls and falls until she finally reaches the bottom where she finds a small key for a very small door and a bottle labeled "Drink Me." She continues on a ride of growing and shrinking to become the size she sees fit for whatever new thing comes her way. She meets a somewhat unfriendly caterpillar, a group of assorted animals who sing and teach her a dance, a door mouse, a hare, and the mad hatter of course. She also plays croquet with the Queen ("Off with her head!"). After all of her fun adventures she finally finds her way home.
I read for 1 1/2 hours this week. (I know that's really depressing :( )
Total Time: 40 hours
Alright well I don't really think this book needs much summarizing because I'm sure we all know the story so I will keep it brief. Alice sees a rabbit with a watch so she follows it and ends up falling down a rabbit hole. She falls and falls and falls until she finally reaches the bottom where she finds a small key for a very small door and a bottle labeled "Drink Me." She continues on a ride of growing and shrinking to become the size she sees fit for whatever new thing comes her way. She meets a somewhat unfriendly caterpillar, a group of assorted animals who sing and teach her a dance, a door mouse, a hare, and the mad hatter of course. She also plays croquet with the Queen ("Off with her head!"). After all of her fun adventures she finally finds her way home.
Total Time: 40 hours
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Week Four
The amount of time I spend reading as opposed to doing other things (watching TV, playing games on the Wii, attempting to have a social life, ect.) depends on the time of the year. During the summer I usually tend to read a lot more because I have a lot more free time. During the school year, sometimes its hard to do a lot of reading because doing school work and things like that are more important than just reading for fun. (Plus in the spring I have track practice, too.) It also depends on if I a book that I want to read. I've pretty much always liked reading so its not very hard for me to sit down and read for a couple hours at a time but I am sometimes very picky about the books I like to read.
Alright now to what I have read this week. I finished up A Crack in the Line this week and decided that I didn't really like it so I probably won't be blindly picking out random books at the library anymore. :/
But on a more positive note I also read The Hunger Games, which I thought was fantastic. It is set in the future in a country called Panem. In this country there were thirteen districts, but then there was a war and one of the districts was eliminated. Panem is a pretty poor country unless you live in the Capitol. The main character in the story, Katniss Everdean, lives in district twelve where many of the people die of starvation. Every year to remind the citizens of Panem of the power of the Capitol, of the war that eliminated the thirteenth district, they host the Hunger Games. In every district two people between the ages of twelve and eighteen, a boy and a girl, are chosen to compete in the games. Now the Hunger Games isn't just some sporting event, it's a fight to the death. There can only be one winner. Katniss and Peeta are the two from district twelve who end up going to the games. For these two their only connection to the outside world is their mentor, Haymitch, who won the games almost thirty years ago. The only problem is he is hardly ever sober. After a week of training and such the twenty-four competitors are put in a very large arena, with a lake and woods and things like that, to fight it out. Some of the competitors are killed right away, some last for a week or so, and only three make it to the final battle, Katniss, Peeta, and a boy from district one. But who will win?
I thought this book was really good and I can't wait to read Catching Fire (I have it on hold at the library :) ).
Alright now to what I have read this week. I finished up A Crack in the Line this week and decided that I didn't really like it so I probably won't be blindly picking out random books at the library anymore. :/
But on a more positive note I also read The Hunger Games, which I thought was fantastic. It is set in the future in a country called Panem. In this country there were thirteen districts, but then there was a war and one of the districts was eliminated. Panem is a pretty poor country unless you live in the Capitol. The main character in the story, Katniss Everdean, lives in district twelve where many of the people die of starvation. Every year to remind the citizens of Panem of the power of the Capitol, of the war that eliminated the thirteenth district, they host the Hunger Games. In every district two people between the ages of twelve and eighteen, a boy and a girl, are chosen to compete in the games. Now the Hunger Games isn't just some sporting event, it's a fight to the death. There can only be one winner. Katniss and Peeta are the two from district twelve who end up going to the games. For these two their only connection to the outside world is their mentor, Haymitch, who won the games almost thirty years ago. The only problem is he is hardly ever sober. After a week of training and such the twenty-four competitors are put in a very large arena, with a lake and woods and things like that, to fight it out. Some of the competitors are killed right away, some last for a week or so, and only three make it to the final battle, Katniss, Peeta, and a boy from district one. But who will win?
I thought this book was really good and I can't wait to read Catching Fire (I have it on hold at the library :) ).
I read for 9 1/2 hours this week.
Total Time: 38 1/2 hours.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Week Three
So last week I went to the library and I brought my mom along because we had some other things to do afterwards. I didn't really have a book in mind that I was looking for, I was just looking because I needed a book to read. So here I am looking at a bunch of books to see what they were about and my mom is standing next to me repeatedly telling me to hurry up. (My mom is pretty anti-library, probably because she isn't much of a reader.) So, trying to hurry to make her happy, I managed to find the next book in the series I have been reading, Burned, and also two other books that looked kind of interesting (hopefully they will be).
This week I read Burned, by P.C. and Kristin Cast (mentioned above). In this installment of the House of Night series Kalona, the evil vampyre, kills Zoey's human boyfriend, Heath. Zoey sees it happening and she trys to stop him but she was too late and her soul shattered. This basically means that she isn't dead but her soul has moved on to another realm and if it doesn't come back to her body soon, she will die. So throughout the rest of the book Zoey's friends, Aphrodite, Stevie Rae, and her Warrior Stark, are trying to find a way to bring her soul back to her body, something that has never been done before. Eventually Stark finds a way to get his spirit to this other realm without killing himself, and he succeeds in bringing Zoey's soul back to her body. Now Zoey and her friends must find a way to defeat Kalona and his lover Neferet.
This week I read Burned, by P.C. and Kristin Cast (mentioned above). In this installment of the House of Night series Kalona, the evil vampyre, kills Zoey's human boyfriend, Heath. Zoey sees it happening and she trys to stop him but she was too late and her soul shattered. This basically means that she isn't dead but her soul has moved on to another realm and if it doesn't come back to her body soon, she will die. So throughout the rest of the book Zoey's friends, Aphrodite, Stevie Rae, and her Warrior Stark, are trying to find a way to bring her soul back to her body, something that has never been done before. Eventually Stark finds a way to get his spirit to this other realm without killing himself, and he succeeds in bringing Zoey's soul back to her body. Now Zoey and her friends must find a way to defeat Kalona and his lover Neferet.
I also got about half way through a book called A Crack in the Line by Michael Lawrence. So far there are two people, a boy called Alaric and a girl called Naia, who are practically twins, except they live in alternate universes. In fact, they are basically the same people. Everything about their lives is exactly the same except for the fact that Alaric's mom died in a train accident and Naia's mom, who is the same person as Alaric's mom in and alternate world, survived the accident. To me it seems that the book is just trying to make the reader realize how big of a difference one simple thing can cause. You get to see what life is like for both of them.
I read for 9 1/2 hours this week.
Total Time: 29 hours
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Week Two
This week I read for 9 1/2 hours.
I finished The Notebook this week. At the end of the book you find out that the beginning of the book was just Noah reading the story of how they met and the time they spent together to Allie because she has Alzheimer's and she doesn't remember who he is. I can relate to how Noah is feeling because my grandpa is dealing with memory loss, too. Though it is not the same cause and he hasn't forgotten who anyone is, it is still hard to deal with at times.
This week I also read Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. This is the story of John Tyree, a soldier stationed in Germany. When he is home on leave, visiting his father, he meet Savannah, and the two definitely hit it off. When he returns to Germany Savannah promises to wait for him to return so they can get married. But then 911 happens and John is forced to stay for two more years. While he is over in Iraq Savannah falls in love with someone else and sends John a letter to let him know. John is crushed. A few months later his dad dies and he returns home for the funeral. While he is home he goes to visit Savannah, who is now married to Tim, who was diagnosised with melanoma. When John leaves to return to Germany he sells his dads coin collection and gives the money (anonymously) to Savannah and Tim so he could get the care he needed.
I finished The Notebook this week. At the end of the book you find out that the beginning of the book was just Noah reading the story of how they met and the time they spent together to Allie because she has Alzheimer's and she doesn't remember who he is. I can relate to how Noah is feeling because my grandpa is dealing with memory loss, too. Though it is not the same cause and he hasn't forgotten who anyone is, it is still hard to deal with at times.
This week I also read Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. This is the story of John Tyree, a soldier stationed in Germany. When he is home on leave, visiting his father, he meet Savannah, and the two definitely hit it off. When he returns to Germany Savannah promises to wait for him to return so they can get married. But then 911 happens and John is forced to stay for two more years. While he is over in Iraq Savannah falls in love with someone else and sends John a letter to let him know. John is crushed. A few months later his dad dies and he returns home for the funeral. While he is home he goes to visit Savannah, who is now married to Tim, who was diagnosised with melanoma. When John leaves to return to Germany he sells his dads coin collection and gives the money (anonymously) to Savannah and Tim so he could get the care he needed.
I also began Burned by P.C. and Kristen Cast, the seventh book in the House of Night series.
Total Time Read: 19 1/2 hours
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